Bøger af Travis Nichols

"THE TERRIBLES HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED to a game of CREEPOBALL, a sport that is played by all monsters on Creep's Cove Island (just don't ask them how to play it--nobody knows ALL the rules!). Their rivals? A horde of relentless, fierce, low-down GNOMES. Can THE TERRIBLES defeat these Gnomes without anyone DISAPPEARING into an ALTERNATE DIMENSION? Why are you asking me? JUST READ THE BOOK, HUMAN!"--

The Terribles might be monsters, but they're also kids just like you! Well, sort of. This hilarious peek into the world of vampires, mummies, swamp-things, and bigfoots is perfect for fans of the Hotel Transylvania movies.Vampires, mummies, and gelatinous balls of goo (oh my!). That's right, monsters are real and they've settled down on the quiet island of Creep's Cove. It's a pretty typical place: houses, stores, portals to various nightmarish parallel dimensions. And a school for the kiddos.Meet the crew: Vlad, a fame-thirsty vampire,Allie, a stuffed animal-dissecting alien,Lizzie, a short-tempered kaiju,and SO many others! Told in alternating chapters, comics, poems, charts, and activities each focused on different classic spooky characters this story is the introduction to monsters you humans have been waiting for.

The Terribles might be monsters, but they're also kids just like you! Well, sort of. This hilarious peek into the world of vampires, mummies, swamp-things, and bigfoots is perfect for fans of the Hotel Transylvania movies.Vampires, mummies, and gelatinous balls of goo (oh my!). That's right, monsters are real and they've settled down on the quiet island of Creep's Cove. It's a pretty typical place: houses, stores, portals to various nightmarish parallel dimensions. And a school for the kiddos. Meet Vlad, the fame-thirsty vampire,Allie, a stuffed animal-dissecting alien,Lizzie, a short-tempered kaiju, and many others! Told in alternating chapters, comics, poems, charts, and activities each focused on different classic spooky characters this book is the introduction to monsters you humans have been waiting for. Want to be more like a monster? Check out the activities in this book that will help make life just a little more terrible!

If the cast of Peanuts were on a drunken boat, their cries for help would resemble poems of Travis Nichols.

Matthew Swanbeck has a classic problem. Back in seventh grade, his dad talked him into playing the trumpet instead of the drums. Now he's a lowly brass player in the school marching band. Until one day he has an epiphany: He can start his own band, play in all the cool rock venues, even go on tour ... if only he can scrape together the cash to buy a drum set. But how will he ever get the money together when The Man thwarts him at every turn, taking taxes out of his paycheck, forcing him to mow the lawn for a measly $10 a week, and creating all of those rules that get in the way of dreams? It's one teen against the system in this light-hearted look at the challenges and rewards of chasing your dreams.

A team of animal sleuths is hired to solve the mystery of a broken window.

';With this hilarious and tragic novel, Travis Nichols has captured the menace and pathos and ridiculousness and dead-seriousness of the Internet.' Emily Gould, author of Friendship Charli and Nico's wedding blog has an uninvited guest: a commenter convinced the bride is being romanced by the brother of the groom. To save her from a terrible mistake he adopts multiple identities on multiple message boards, sharing his fears for Charli, his outrage at being thwarted, and the romance, years ago in his analog past, that first attracted his meddlesome care. Cranky, hilarious, and incisive,The More You Ignore Metakes on Internet etiquette, the distortions of voyeurism, and the incessant, expansive flow of words that may not be able to staunch loneliness, but holds out the hope of talking it to death. ';Nichols has engaged in a flabbergasting act of literary ventriloquism... The More You Ignore Meis aNotes from Undergroundby way of the Huffington Post.' The Stranger (Seattle) ';Want a reminder what you can do with fiction? Told entirely as a blog post comment from the perspective of a dude crashing a wedding website, this psychologically-driven novel is what you're looking for.' Bustle ';[Nichols] captures the wheedling tone, the aggravating escalation, the stultifying self-involvement of the Internet troll... Raw enough to bring the dark laughter of recognition.' Minneapolis Star-Tribune ';An experimental novel of obsession and violation that makes Nicholson Baker and Mark Leyner look positively banal.' Kirkus Reviews